Yes, we have some new transportation around here and I’m pretty excited! Let me give you some hints… One is red. One is white. One is blue! The first is Peanut. Short and stocky. Tons of power and go. Yes, I wanted to change his name, but I think his name is stuck (to the…
Category: Animals
And Your Day?
at the barn at 5 am. get cows to mountain in good time. destination covered in timothy grass in full pollen. allergic to timothy. sneeze. find out we’re moving MORE cattle. sneezesneeze. ride to next pasture. sniffsneeze. almost fall off colt. adrenalin helps me forget about allergies momentarily. cattle are not in pasture. find cattle….
Wordless Wednesday – “Shades of Grey”
The neighbor’s horses provide many shades of grey in their hidden green retreat. **** July 20, 2010 Battlescars July 20, 2009 Bogged Down July 20, 2008 No entry.
Water Then Fire
Brandon and I were given the task of checking the neighbor’s pastures for our cattle, some of which decided to take themselves to the mountain pasture. We rode the Tully Place… pics of that later. We have a new colt, just turned three… nice, tall, and blue… and Brandon was aboard. Well, this new colt…
Monday Movie – “The View”
I thought I’d try something new. Wednesdays are Wordless… I decided that Mondays should be Movie Night. A short, one minute video blog entry about something. Anything. Whatever. Although most of you love my photos, I always feel you’re missing out on “the experience”. We’ll see if the movies fulfill that… I’m sure you’ll let…
En Garde
Someone said to me the other day, “Isn’t it ironic the overabundance of water this spring has cost us the shortage of water this summer?” Translation: Our irrigation of our fields is now JUST STARTING. Vernon and the boys have worked and worked and hired LARGE excavators to repair and replace ditches, headgates, crossings, and…
Hunting Dragons
You many not have noticed, but in the last picture from yesterday’s post, there was an unusual object in the bottom center… Sailing over the water in flamboyant stripes… A dragonfly. It was pure luck in the capture, but it made that photo extra special! That entire pond was humming with activity from at least…
Appreciate the View
The past two days have been Cowboy Days. With the water situation finally resolved in one pasture, and the lease of another pasture, we could finally move some cattle to higher range! Yay! Cattle don’t do as well in hot weather… and we’ve had plenty of that lately. They were very happy to move up,…
Dry Dusty
I wish GoDaddy would leave my fonts and sizes the way I want them… sorry for the past few days… I don’t know what makes it revert to a smaller size and different font when I hit “publish”! I have the CUTEST video uploading to vimeo right now… unfortunately, I won’t stay up that long…
“Bloody hell, this is a sh***y job”
The job today was to gather and bleed our heifers. The morning was spent gathering them from their pasture and trailing them home. We had a bit of difficulty there… we have a creek crossing that they just can’t hit. It’s built like a sharply turned fishhook, down into a cutbank, and then across the…
Puppies and Panama
Happy Fourth of July, everyone! We had to move some cows this morning… which resulted in a late arrival to the rodeo and fewer chances to take pictures. Don’t worry, I WILL share what I did manage to get… It also allowed me a rare instance… since Panama now lives up here at the Mills…
Same Bat Channel…
I asked you to stay tuned… and in my frame of reference… that phrase from the prehistoric television Bat Man still sticks in my head… *Same bat time… same bat channel!* For you youngsters, you probably can get a glimpse of that on Youtube or Nickelodeon… Anyway. My friend, Bush Babe, from Australia, did indeed…